Ethiopia Songtext

von Joni Mitchell

Hot winds and hunger cries - Ethiopia
Flies in your babies' eyes - Ethiopia
Walking sticks on burning plains
Betrayed by politics
Abandoned by the rains
On and on - the human need
On and on - the human greed profanes
Ethiopia - Ethiopia - Ethiopia

Your top soil flies away - Ethiopia
We pump ours full of poison spray - Ethiopia
Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns
I hear the whine of chain saws
Hacking rain forests down
On and on - insanities
On and on - Short sighted greed abounds
Ethiopia - Ethiopia - Ethiopia

Little garden planet-oasis in space
Some hearts hurt - they can hardly stand it
Famine phantoms at the garden gates
Ethiopia - Ethiopia - Ethiopia

Every Sunday on TV - Ethiopia
You suffer with such dignity - Ethiopia
A T.V. star with a P.R. smile
Calls your baby "it" while strolling
Through your tragic trials
On and on - stupidity
On and on - the basic needs are defiled
Good air - good water - good earth
Ethiopia - Ethiopia - Ethiopia

Little garden planet - oasis in space
Some hearts hurt - they can hardly stand the waste
Ethiopia - Ethiopia - Ethiopia